Improved stove-blacking box



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WILLIAM W. ARMINeToN, 0E NEWv HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, AssIGNoE To HrMsELE,

STEPHEN L. UsHEE, AND FRED. A. WELTON, on SAME PLACE. a

Letters Patent No. 102,646, (Ia-ted May 3, 1870.

IMIROVED STOVE-BLACKING- BOX.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame To all whom 'it may concern.:

Be it known that I, WLLLIAM W. ARMINGTON, of New Haven, in the county ofNewvHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inStove-blacking Pan; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings, and the letters of referencemarked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description'of the same,and which saiddiawings constitute part of this specification, andrepresent in Figure 1, a perspective view closed whennot in use; and

Figure 2, a perspective viewv open when in use.

llhe object of this invention is the arrangement of a device for gratingblaeking,'combincd with a pan within which to prepare the blacking foruse.

Ais the pan, usually provided with a handle, B.

AC isthe'eover, formed so as to'clos'e the pan, as seen ini fig. 1,orhinged to be turned back, as'seen in `fig. 2.

Upon the inside of' the cover I arrange a grater, D, upon whichthe'blacking is rubbed, passing through into a conductor, el, whichleads into the pan. rlhe requisite quantity having been rubbed o", it.is prepared in the pan in the usual manner, and, n hen not required foruse, the cover, closes the pan, preserving all that may remain in asuitableA state for future use.

As here represented, the grater is made independent of the cover, andattached thereto, yet it may be formed from the metal itself, theinvention being to combine a grater with the cover of the pan.

I claim as my invention- The pan A, provided with a cover O, havingcom-r bined with, or arranged thereon, a grater D, substantially in themanner and for the purpose specified.

WILLIAM W. ARMINGTON.

Witnesses:

J. H. SHUMWAY, A. J. TIBBITS.

